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http://www.nps.edu/csrs/

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The Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS) is a teaching institute located at the Naval Postgraduate School. The purpose of the Center is to provide educational opportunities for the full-spectrum of actors that become involved in stabilization and reconstruction activities. CSRS accomplishes this purpose through a wide variety of practitioner-oriented programs, including games/table top exercises, short courses, workshops, conferences and applied research initiatives.
CSRS was conceived to address this challenge of coordination and combined action among diverse actors in stability and reconstruction operations. The Center considers the actors falling, typically, into four broad communities:

• US and foreign armed forces
• Governmental civilian agencies, such as the State Department and Agency for International Development, and their foreign counterparts
• Representatives of NGOs (relief groups, human rights groups, civil society groups, etc.)
• Representatives from inter-governmental organizations IGOs (the UN family of organizations and the regional organizations)

“You [military professionals] must know something about strategy and tactics and logistics, but also economics and policy and diplomacy and history. You must know everything you can know about military power, and you must also understand the limits of military power. You must understand that few of the important problems of our time have, in the final analysis, been finally solved by military power alone.”
--John F. Kennedy